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Bitterly divided as the country is, many Kerry supporters instead must simply learn how to function at whatever stage of recovery they can attain. I know plenty of folks who plan to nurse their anti-Bush ire, using it as a motivating tool to work even harder for a Democratic victory next time. Such chronic rage may sound unhealthy--but it did the trick for Newt Gingrich's troops in the wake of Bill Clinton...
BEST REASON TO DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR PURCHASE BEFORE LEAVING BARNES & NOBLE Unfit for Command, an attack on Kerry's Vietnam service by John E. O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, and Unfit Commander, an anti-Bush book by Glenn W. Smith...
...then "move on." In the 2000 election they promoted candidates for Congress to replace those members who had been supporters of impeachment. By the time of Campaign '04, their website had become a symbol of the new power of the Internet in national politics--a cyberspace headquarters of anti-Bush sentiment and a powerful online fund-raising tool, with some 2.8 million members. Backed with millions of grass-roots dollars, MoveOn took to the airwaves with one Bush-bashing TV ad after another--but to no avail...
...more finger pointing than soul searching. And that's a shame." For Reed and other so-called New Democrats who struggle to keep the party from veering too far to the left, Kerry was a vast improvement over Howard Dean, who rode a wave of antiwar and anti-Bush sentiment to prominence before crashing in the primaries. But, insists Reed, Kerry should have run a better campaign. "We can't let George Bush define our future. That's where the Dean and Kerry campaigns both came up short," he says ruefully. "Democrats need to put forward our vision...
...capacity of independent nonparty organizations like MoveOn, Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to raise money and mobilize anti-Bush voters has acted like a fresh rain on the Democratic Party's parched grass roots. Even though the Democratic candidate lost, the party and the broader network of liberal, anti-Bush organizations succeeded in raising record sums of money and enlisting unprecedented numbers of volunteers. Far from being distraught and depressed by the election, the way they were after 2000, many Democrats sound surprisingly upbeat about the future...